SCHIP sails on

Under intense pressure from illegal alien advocacy groups for their support in the 2006 midterm elections, the Democrats are desperately trying to pay their debt and their latest half-baked SCHIP expansion bill is a clear demonstration of just how stupid they think the people of this country really are.

Under the provisions of their newest edition of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) illegal aliens would not be required to prove citizenship however, they would be required to provide a valid Social Security number. Of course, there is no intention of verifying that the number they provide actually belongs to them, but that is beside the point. As long as the number belongs to someone that will be good enough.

The primary target of the Democratic effort to expand SCHIP coverage remains, as it has in the past, at undoing the 1996 welfare policy that restricted most public benefits to legal immigrants who have been in the country for at least five years. Their latest version leaves that law intact but creates a simple bypass that will enable all but the dumbest of illegal aliens to get around it.

The Democratic effort to expand SCHIP, like their attempt at passing the so-called DREAM Act is nothing more than a vote buying scheme aimed at the more than 20 million illegal aliens now in the United States, and hopefully, President Bush shoots this one down as quick as he did the last one.
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